Evaling Video Slop

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Everyone is shipping video models. Almost no one is evaling them honestly. CLIP score doesn't catch

temporal incoherence. Vibes-based human review doesn't scale. And every "AI judge" you wire up will

quietly drift away from human preference unless you measure the drift. This is a tactical talk on

building real multimodal eval, using JudgeJudy (open-sourced at Character.ai) as the working

example. You'll leave with: Why video is different from text. Temporal consistency, shot continuity,

narrative coherence, and the metrics that actually capture each (clip_temporal,

temporal_consistency, and friends). AI judges, the real version. Custom rubrics, when they work,

when they hallucinate, when they collapse to a single dimension and pretend they didn't. The

calibration loop. Pearson/Spearman correlation against human scores, automated rubric improvement,

detecting systematic judge bias before it costs you a release. Pairwise preference models for video.

Training a Qwen3-VL backbone with Bradley-Terry loss to score "is this slop?" before it ships.

Regression gates in CI. How every AgentX release at Character.ai passes through an eval wall before

it reaches users. Closing the loop with JudgeJudy. Correlating eval scores against real telemetry

(Amplitude, Statsig) and feeding validated gates back into the runtime. If you're shipping any

multimodal output and your eval strategy is still "the team watches some clips on Friday," this is

the upgrade. github.com/character-ai/judgejudy

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